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...would reach a "tipping point"?a point at which even a tiny additional increase would throw the system into violent change. If peat bogs and Arctic permafrost warm enough to start releasing the methane stored within them, for example, that potent greenhouse gas would suddenly accelerate the heat-trapping process...
...position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last year, arrived last week to probe the still largely empty offices of the President's Executive Branch for some augury of what the Bush Administration wants...
...Kyoto guidelines meeting, originally scheduled for Bonn in early June, was postponed to late July to accommodate the new Administration. Now, the Europeans are feeling hoodwinked: though the Bush White House will send representatives to that meeting, they aren't likely to be bearing instructions to advance the process. Indeed, Greenpeace warned this week in a letter to European Commission President Romano Prodi, "It seems likely that the U.S.A. will attempt to block decisions...
...depend on the factor Bush considers paramount: economics. If the global market favors companies that make low-fuel automobiles, effective windmills and solar batteries, then American companies will press their government in a different direction. But how long that will take is even less easily predicted than the fretful process of global warming itself...
Boucheron In the mid-19th century, Frédéric Boucheron became the first Paris jeweler to process diamonds, later etching royal crests into the precious stones at the request of various royal families. The practice stopped when some clients found it necessary to unload their gems for cash. Boucheron now has a different jewel - perfume. Its first, in a bottle shaped like a ring, was a swift success. Today most of the company's dollars come from scents...